Oscar Wilde Forgiving Quotations

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.